Contents

Inverting Dickens: Biofiction, Illegibility, and the Author as Suspect in Dan Simmons’s Drood (7)

Abdelrahman Morshed, University of Pecs, Hungary

Against the Machine: An Ecofeminist Reading of E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops (23)

Corina Mitrulescu, Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Academy, Sibiu, Romania

Audio Monsters: Cosmic Horror and Inhuman Beings in The Magnus Archives (36)

Magdalena Szukalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Translating Vita Sackville-West’s Seducers in Ecuador into Polish: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges (52)

Dagmara Kottke, University of Siedlce, Poland

Relationality and Posthuman Motoring in Human-generated and Non-human EV Discourse in Australia (71)

Maciej Adamski, Independent scholar, Poland

Common Issues of Using English as a Lingua Franca (89)

Maksym Cheremisin, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland

The 33rd Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE) / Crossroads Conference, Białystok, 4–6 June 2025 (107)

Anna Karczewska, University of Białystok, Poland

Review: Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck (eds.), 2023. The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction (111)

Vladimíra Fonfárová, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

Review: James F. English and Heather Love (eds.), 2023. Literary Studies and Human Flourishing (112)

Animesh Kumar University of Delhi, Delhi Dr Ujjwal Jana University of Delhi, Delhi

Review: Jens Martin Gurr, 2024. Understanding Public Debates: What Literary Studies Can Do (117)

Animesh Kumar University of Delhi, India, Ujjwal Jana University of Delhi, India

Review: Krzysztof Fordoński, 2025. E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations (121)

Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

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